Open Thread

I’m on the road for the next 18 hours or so. Your thoughts go below.

Please behave.

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Posted by: on September 15, 2004 07:27 PM

Everyone download FireFox 1.0PR and take a look at the integrated RSS technology….Lets drop IE and Safari and have a true open cross platfrom independent browser. Way to go…

http://www.mozilla.org/


Posted by: Ted Feuerbach on September 15, 2004 07:28 PM

Shhhhhhh! Dan’s not here, let’s talk about him.

Seriously, there is a local (here in Silicon Valley) State Legislature candidate named Steve Poizner. He is a Republican who is spending millions on his campaign. Interestingly Richard Clarke, who has been slammed for his book about the Bush administration’s ignorance about terrorism before 9/11 is campaigning for him. Guess that rules out Clarke’s political motives when he wrote the book!


Posted by: on September 15, 2004 07:39 PM

Ted, You’re right on both counts.

Also, Poizner has spent a considerable amount of his own money for his campaign, promising to start campaign finance reform. That’s easy enough when one is a multi-millionaire after having sold one’s company to Qualcomm (as Poizner did).

Poizner’s opponent, Ira Raskin (sp?), has been around for a while and proven himself as an advocate for reform that’s “people-based” and not unduly influenced by wealthy special interests.

Poizner’s campaign has run like clockwork; it’s very slick and professionally run. He has good people advising him; the best money can buy. :))

Raskin campaigned on my doorstep some weks ago; one thing that really impressed me about him was that he had a young lad with him – a high-school student – who had volunteered to help in is campaign. I thought he was doing a great civil work by introducing that kid to the “underbelly” of working in a political campaign. Impressive.


Posted by: on September 15, 2004 10:42 PM

Stock Options

If stock options are traded publically for short periods of time, why not trade them for longer periods of time like the ones given to employees. Then the companies could expense the value of the options on market prices.

Firefox

Firefox 1.0PR busted almost all my extensions. The built in pop up blocker notice is nice. The find tool bar and highlighter at the bottom is nice as well. But it should predictively realize that if I type a term in a websites search box that I’ll probably want it in the find bar as well. I am also missing the Bugmenot extension and gmail compose.

But the latest critical vulnerability is reason enough to upgrade. Dan could you read your logs and publish what % of people visiting your site are using Firefox?


Posted by: Russ on September 16, 2004 06:47 AM

RE Joe’s comment about us all using Firefox.

I’m a recent adopter and upgraded to the new version. I have to say I prefer it to IE. Problem will be when it gains sufficient market share to attract all the mayhem makers. Already this application has had “holes” patched in the new version and this is just the beginning.


Posted by: on September 16, 2004 06:56 AM

I’ve tried firefox twice in the last 8 months. Both times I went back to mozilla for one key feature: turning off dynamic gifs. Browsing without all those flashing, blinking, epilepsy-inducing banner ads is just too important.


Posted by: Dirk on September 16, 2004 07:19 AM

> Both times I went back to mozilla for one key feature: turning off dynamic gifs.

You can disable that in firefox too, no problem.


Posted by: on September 16, 2004 08:18 AM

Un-scientific poll here. We’re all relatively intelligent here and I’d like to know what other people are thinking.

Please provide me with your brief prediction for the Presidential Election.

I predict that Nader stays on the FL ballot, Bush Wins FL and goes on to win the election by a small margin.

You?


Posted by: FlackLikeMe on September 16, 2004 08:19 AM

Un-scientific poll here. We’re all relatively intelligent here and I’d like to know what other people are thinking.

Please provide me with your brief prediction for the Presidential Election.

I predict that Nader stays on the FL ballot, Bush Wins FL and goes on to win the election by a small margin.

You?


Posted by: on September 16, 2004 08:58 AM

We seem to get so distracted by potential electronic voter fraud. But we can’t lose sight of the fact that there’s still a ton of problems with the current system. Read “How to Steal an Election”

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/09/16/how_to_steal_an_election/

The election is still a long way off, so a lot could happen between now and then. But if things stay on an even keel, I predict Bush by a fairly respectable margin. Florida won’t be close. If the overall race is tight, Ohio could be the place to watch this year.

And for the record, I was in the ABB camp 6-8 months ago. The Dems had this election handed to them on a plate. But I have never seen such gross incompetence and bumbling in a campaign effort. Its sad, really.


Posted by: on September 16, 2004 11:10 AM

Did someone else just get outted?

The Washington Post reported that Donald W. Keyser, an ex-State Dept. official, had passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged with concealing a trip to Taiwan. See Powell Aide Gave Papers to Taiwan, FBI Says.

The article also mentions that Keyser’s wife is a CIA officer, but did not mention her name. However, some simple sleuthing shows that Donald Keyser is from Virginia. Running a search for him in Google reveals a phone number. A reverse search of the phone number shows Margaret Lyons.


Posted by: on September 16, 2004 11:15 AM

Powell Aid Gave Papers to Taiwan, FBI Says:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24703-2004Sep15.html?nav%3Drss_politics

Phonebook results for donald keyser va:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=donald+keyser+va&btnG=Search

Phonebook results for (703) 690-7086:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%28703%29+690-7086&btnG=Search


Posted by: on September 17, 2004 03:01 AM

Margaret Lyon is a cia agent?

Is that what your telling us?

MARGARET LYONS is a CIA agent?

Some of these laws are just risible these days aren’t they. When I publish this all over Indymedia and Cryptome gets hold of it – if they haven’t already that will make a mockery of USSA law.

As it should too, thank f*ck for the free NET and free speech and death to the CIA.

Now as a follow up I suggest a mass civil disobedience campaign to make fools of the secret service. That is we all threaten to kill the pretzel a week from now. Get a few thousand involved and the SS are DoSed and stuffed – much like the Brits in India finally were.

Mass civil disobedience gets the goodie’s.
( seasoned with a little direct action to taste of course )


Posted by: Gerd Stodiek on September 17, 2004 05:45 AM

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I am a freelancer for Deutsche Welle, the host of the award and blogger, an international broadcaster in 30 languages. The awards will be held in DW’s seven focus languages.

Nominations kick off today! So nominate your favorite blog in design, innovation, topic, journalism or best weblog. You can nominate your own of course.


Posted by: Seth Finkelstein on September 17, 2004 06:14 AM

I’ve colleced some good forgery memo evidence links at

http://sethf.com/cbs-memos/


Posted by: on September 19, 2004 09:57 AM

Thanks for your insightful and informative articles.

I look forward to the article you plan … “build a hard-disk recording system that won’t be bound by those restrictions…”.

Please include details and costs of integrating it with the content provider (e.g., monthly fee to connect with their broadcast schedule), hardware selection, software required, other URLs/resources, etc.

Stephen Mehl


Posted by: Resumes on September 20, 2004 05:57 AM

Ahhhh… the fun resumes

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